Crime Scene: February 21, 2010 - February 27, 2010

A third suspect was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with the Tuesday rape of an 11-year-old girl in Silver Spring. Authorities also provided new details on the case, including how the three men were able to get the girl into...

Update, 4 p.m.: The Senate on Friday scheduled a vote on Keenan's nomination for Tuesday, according to the office of Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va) Original post: When President Obama was elected, legal scholars said he had a unique opportunity to...

A Prince George's County jury will begin deliberations Friday afternoon in the case of a man accused of participating in an illegal street race that led to the deaths of eight people in a crash in Accokeek a little more...

Two construction workers in Georgetown were seriously injured Friday morning when a strong gust of wind apparently knocked them from scaffolding and they fell about 30 feet to the ground, a D.C. fire department spokesman said. The men, who are...

A 35-year-old man was badly burned and a 5-year-old girl suffered smoke inhalation in a Friday morning fire at a Hyattsville apartment complex, officials said. Shortly before 9 a.m., firefighters were alerted to the blaze at a garden apartment unit...

Twenty-nine students at the private Lab School in Northwest Washington were taken to hospitals Friday morning, most of them for precautionary reasons, after someone apparently discharged a canister of pepper spray in the campus’ high school building, the D.C. fire...

It is known as "granny ripping," or "getting granny" -- targeting elderly homeowners and scamming them into paying for unnecessary home repairs or utility work that is never done at all. Now, the final of three defendants have been sentenced...

The toothbrush bandits are at it again. Loudoun Sheriff's investigators are searching for two men suspected of stealing about $2,000 worth of electric toothbrushes and other high-end dental products this month. The men have been walking into Harris Teeter stores,...

Here's an interesting report from the Associated Press: Authorities say an inmate serving three life terms has been recaptured in West Virginia after he conned his way out of a Baltimore prison. Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says 26-year-old Raymond...

Five occupants of a group home in Montgomery County were taken to a hospital Friday morning after an oil furnace malfunctioned in their basement, officials said. Three of them suffered from smoke inhalation, but all the injuries were considered non-life...

A Fairfax County anger management counselor, arrested last month for allegedly pointing a gun at two U.S. deputy marshals, has been ordered to stay in jail until his trial by a federal magistrate judge in Alexandria.
Jose L. Avila, 57, was arrested near his home in Annandale on Jan. 25 after he allegedly pulled his sport-utility vehicle near two marshals and aimed a handgun at them. They ducked, then chased Avila, then arrested him.

Serial killer Alfredo R. Prieto, convicted of killing a woman in California and two people in Fairfax County, faces a complicated resentencing in Fairfax after the state supreme court ruled that the judge provided a improper verdict forms to the jury who sentenced Prieto to death. On Thursday, Prieto's lawyers argued that the judge was too emotional in imposing that death sentence, and should recuse himself from the case.

Fairfax County police said Thursday that Efrain Flores-Vasquez, 49, was the man who was struck and killed early Wednesday in Tysons Corner by a car which then fled the scene.
Police also said they now believe the vehicle which struck Flores-Vasquez was a silver or beige four-door Honda Accord EX, from the model years 1999 to 2002.

This post contains updated information: A 42-year-old man was shot at the Kay Cee pharmacy in District Heights at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Prince George's police. He was taken to a local hospital. We are checking into reports...

A construction worker in Miami who was watching "America's Most Wanted" this month, saw a coworker and picked up the phone. "I'm 100 percent sure it's him," the viewer reportedly told the show's operators, said Cpl. Dan Friz, a spokesman...

When a bullet struck a woman in the chest during a robbery in California, the woman survived. Now her cosmetic surgeon is seeking to defray the cost of the woman's implants. The L.A. Times has the story....

Amy Castillo, the Montgomery County pediatrician whose ex-husband drowned their three children in a hotel room bathtub in 2008, is scheduled to testify in Annapolis today to support a bill that would make it easier to receive court-approved protective orders....

The abandoned car in traffic lane at 15th Street NW. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)For more than a week, the silver Mercury Grand Marquis sat abandoned in a traffic lane of 15th Street NW near the intersection with M Street....

A Fairfax County Circuit Court clerk was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing money from the clerk’s office, Fairfax police said.
Deborah Sterling, 58, of Clifton had worked as a cashier in the civil intake division, police said, where lawsuits and motions are filed, often with accompanying fees. She worked in the clerk’s office for nine years.

This post contains updated information: A 40-year-old Woodbridge woman who dragged a man more than a mile under her car after an accident on Centreville Road this week turned herself in to police on Wednesday afternoon after she was charged...

A 67-year-old Georgia man was sentenced to about 10 years in prison in connection with a sexual relationship he had with a Maryland teenager, federal authorities said. Mack Gordon Harris, of Social Circle, Ga., was convicted in federal court in...

Alfreedia L. Gregg-Glover, 45, recently came before a judge to learn her punishment for leaving her 13-year-old adopted daugher to die in a frigid stream. During the Prince William Circuit Court hearing, only prosecutors who had never met Alexis "Lexie"...

This post contains updated information: Two Silver Spring men were arrested Tuesday night inside an apartment where police say they had just raped an 11-year-old girl. The suspects, 31 and 20, are being held on $1 million bond each and...

A Brazilian man became a prisoner of his own scheme late on Monday, after he got caught in a restaurant's brick-oven chimney during an attempted robbery. Watch the video as police try to get him out. And check out this...

Crime in Vienna increased in 2009, though there were no homicides and overall crime remained low, according to statistics released Wednesday morning. Police recorded 91 violent crimes last year, compared with 79 in 2008. Last year's violent crimes included three...

The Veterans Affairs checks arrived month after month, each a helpful cushion of about $1,100 payable to Layuna F. Harges, widow of Army Sgt. Jack Harges who had served honorably in 1963 and 1964. The benefits checks for his spouse...

Investigators have recovered the bloody shirt of a 13-year-old boy suspected of killing a teacher at a state-run juvenile detention facility in Prince George’s County, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. One of the sources said investigators...

A federal judge's ruling that Fairfax County could not be held liable for the fatal shooting of optometrist Salvatore J. Culosi in 2006 will stand, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, but Culosi's parents can renew the appeal after trial.

A 12-year-old boy was briefly abducted last week in the Oakton area by two men in a black van, Fairfax police said Tuesday. It happened at about 6 p.m. Thursday as the boy walked in the 2900 block of Palmer...

A jury has been selected. The legal issues have been hammered out. Now, a trial is set to go this morning of an ex-con accused of biling an invalid widow of $112,829 and convincing her to marry him in the...

The 52-year-old Fairfax man who died in a house fire Saturday as seven of his relatives escaped uninjured had intentionally set the fire, officials said. Ching Ho Wang, 52, of the 3700 block of Paul Street in the Bailey's Crossroads...

A 17-year-old was cut across her face this morning during a confrontation as she walked to Annandale High, Fairfax police said. It happened at 6:50 a.m. in the 4400 block of Elan Place in Annandale. The victim told police she...

A 33-year-old man wanted in connection with two killings in Oregon was arrested in Prince William County on Monday after someone he was staying with became suspicious of him and looked up his name on the Internet. Gabriel Christian Morris...

A Montgomery County jury convicted Renee Bowman of two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of child abuse on Monday for the beating of her three adopted girls. Two of the girls died and Bowman stuffed their bodies into...

Update, 1:30 p.m.: The passenger has been identified as Jose Guillermo Tista Lemus, 26, of the 1300 block of Dilston Road in Silver Spring. Original Post: A 26-year-old Silver Spring man was killed in a car accident Saturday night when...

A Montgomery County jury now is deliberating the fate of Renee Bowman, the adoptive mother charged with killing two of her three daughters and stuffing their bodies into a freezer. Bowman, 44, is accused of killing two girls she adopted,...

Two Vienna men who allegedly assaulted a cab driver late last month were arrested in North Carolina and are now being brought back to Vienna for prosecution, police said. The incident happened on Jan. 31 at 5:10 a.m. in the...

Six men who thought they were setting up meetings with prostitutes were caught in a sting operation in Loudoun County after the sheriff's department ran bait ads on popular Web sites. The men, ranging in age from 21 to 39,...

Authorities say skeletal human remains have been found on the grounds of a bed and breakfast in downtown Snow Hill in Worcester County, Md. Police say the remains were found after several hours of searching as part of a larger...